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The Project started with a pilot in 1994 and currently reaches about 7,000 children, mostly from the poorest families in the community. Older children act as facilitators for children aged 6–12, and preference is given to out-of-school children though the programme also feeds into the health promoting and child friendly schools initiatives.
Community Health and Education Personnel are also involved. The main focus is general health and child development with emphasis on getting children to identify and solve problems and evaluate outcomes. Difficulties have been found with the six-step approach. Training and monitoring is in place and Child-to-Child materials are used. Read more
Note 1
Action with out-of-school children
The current Save the Children website reads:
“The Primary Education program includes both in and out of school children in the range of 6-15 years for more accessibility to and availability of primary education opportunities. The out-of-school children in the same age range along with some adolescents are involved in the child-centred program Child-to-Child (CtC). The CtC program uses the 6-step approach to build their own capacity to identify problems and issues, plan intervention, implement and evaluate them. “ Lokokendra” have been established to organise social awareness campaigns. These are basically community learning and resource centres where children come to read books and learn developmental skills.”
Date: 2005
Source: Save the Children USA
NOTE 2
A cross-cutting approach to Water and Sanitation Programmes
WaterAid Reports:
“The CtC is a cross-cutting issue … (within)… an Integrated Participatory Empowering Approach towards Safe Water, Environmental Protection and Hygiene Promotion. Using the CtC approach children are considered as a vital key beside other groups to raise critical awareness in the community because they are the future generation.”
Date: 2005
Source: Khandakar Liakat Ali, Senior Programme Coordinator, WaterAid Bangladesh
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